You know, sometimes I struggle to call myself disabled. And it’s not because I think the word “disabled” is inherently negative or demeaning. (I’ve long since grown out of that mindset.)
Really, half the time I feel like, “well, I can still hold my own in hearing spaces! I don’t even use aids! I don’t have it that bad. I’m not disabled enough.”
But even so, if I’m not focusing hard on the person speaking to me, I probably wont be able to understand them.
If a room has background noise, or if someone is standing on my left side, hearing them will basically be impossible.
If people aren’t right in front of me they really have to project or else I won’t be able to understand a word they say.
It takes so much energy every day to make sure I’m hearing and understanding everything around me.
I am disabled.
Yet general society has pushed the narrative that disabled people cannot function ever. To truly count as disabled, you must always be cared for. You must always be in a wheelchair. You must always have aids. If your struggle isn’t immediately obvious, are you really disabled?
And that’s bullshit to me. Because all it leads to is being infantilized, looked down upon, and scrutinized endlessly. It’s especially bad for those who are neurodivergent or otherwise mentally disabled.
We shouldn’t have to live like that. We shouldn’t have to justify and prove our suffering to everyone we meet so we can get the accommodations we need. We shouldn’t have to be looked down upon for being disabled.
The Problem: Mori wants Dazai as his successor. The mafia wants Chuuya as Mori's successor. Dazai doesn't want it. Cannibalism stageplay revealed that Chuuya doesn't want it either.
The solution: They deal with is skk style. They flip coins, draw straws, battle it out at the arcade. Loser has to lead the PM for a week. Winner gets time off. A week later, rinse and repeat.
Yes, they cheat. Yes, they know the other is cheating. No, it doesn't stop them from trying to out-cheat the other. No, they don't miss a beat picking up right where the other left the work, no matter the codewords, operations, secrets, etc involved that they should technically be clueless about. No, they don't think that's strange. Yes, everyone else is screaming into their pillows.
(Bonus: Dazai spends his ill-gotten time off at the agency, working for the government for a given definition of Dazai-working at a job that pays less than 0.01% of the PM boss salary. He does it to be annoying (and also for mental health reasons).
Chuuya spends his ill-gotten time off attending classy wine-tasting events, writing poetry, and being lead singer for a rock band. He's got a healthy life work balance for the first time in his life.)
I feel like Asagiri lost his Bungo Stray Sanity a long time ago and Harukawa just puts up with it
Someone get these two a nice bed and some therapy
it makes me insane how the dazai most know only voices his thoughts when absolutely necessary, but he casually thinks out loud when alone with chuuya
You know, I do like Higuchi as a BSD character.
But sometimes I can’t help but wonder why she’s in the position she’s in. Being in the Mafia is clearly not up her alley. Especially in relation to being any sort of bodyguard to Akutagawa. (It’s not that she lacks combat skill, it’s simply that Akutagawa far surpasses her in that area. Almost everyone in the Black Lizard does.)
But after reading beast and giving it some thought, my personal headcanon has become that she does all the…NOT killing stuff.
She’s basically secretary and manager.
Shes the one who delivers Akutagawa his missions when Mori himself can’t. She’s the one who handles much of the paperwork for the Black Lizard. She’s the one who brings morale and helps keep the group members from killing each other (even if sometimes that leads to her becoming their metaphorical punching bag.)
I dunno, the Black Lizard just seems kind of chaotic to me. You cannot convince me they would be able to keep it together if they didn’t have someone keeping them in line somewhat.
Sure they have Hirotsu, but his hold really only extends to Gin and Tachihara. And honestly, the fact that Hirotsu is there at all tells me all I need to know.
It’s actually disgusting me that people are choosing to forget about Palestine not even a full year into this ongoing genocide. Nothing is better. Nothing has slowed down. It’s just underreported. It’s just that western media outlets aren’t pretending to care. The iof is still targeting aid distribution centers, it’s still killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, it’s still preventing medical aid from entering North Gaza. So many diseases are robbing families of their loved ones. It is worse than it has ever been. Less people are talking about it now because they no longer want to be bothered to care
No because as a writer/artist and someone who consumes media with the intention of actually paying attention and looking into the characters themes, etc, things like this are incredibly annoying and only poison the well.
I often wonder if things like this are contributing to the slow dying of media literacy, and the more I hear about it, the more I believe that they do.
Art, in any form, is not supposed to be for mindless consumption. To make a creative work with that intention is to strip it of one of the things that make art so important to humanity.
"Love is what makes us human" Wrong, my ability to write poetry about the moon is what makes me human
Triple it.
lord take all of my pain and sufferig and give it to elon musk
they/them (I am a minor!!) Welcome to my personal blog where I mostly yap about BSD right now… I also like writing, world building, and media analysis tho!
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